Brian O'Blivion: The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television.- Videodrome

With over 90% share of the UK search market, Google dominates the way in which people learn about you. So it has irked many that Google Maps has for years been telling everyone that Honor Oak Park was where St Johns should be.

Well the team behind Brockley Market weren't going to stand for it any more and employed some dark arts (they asked Google nicely) to have that wrong, righted. Here's the new map. We're going to ask them if they'll consider throwing a border around Greater Brockley.

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David Fanning
said...

That's fantastic news. It has been bugging me for years!

But wait, they've got it in the wrong place still. It should centre on St John's Church, as it's the Parish of St Johns. Or reasonably it could be centred on the station. But they have it across the road in SE4! St John's is SE8, as it was previously known as Deptford New Town.

Just waiting for unemployment and economic collapse in the borough of Lewisham to cause people to put their faith in an authoritarian leader, backed by wealthy local businesses worried about the surge in support for People Before Profit.

If you type in Lewisham Way SE4you get a slightly different version on google - with only St. John's C of E church (wrongly postitioned) but no others - but you do have Tesco Express and The Talbot as landmarks.